For over seven decades investor-owned utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, and others have entrusted their electrical construction and maintenance needs to Davis H. Elliot Company, Inc. (Elliot).

Elliot is a full-service electrical contractor specializing in overhead and underground distribution, transmission, substations, lighting, traffic signaling, utility locating and industrial/commercial services.

Job Description

As a General Foreman you will be required to supervise all types of electrical work in commercial construction, service and healthcare environments. As part of the day-to-day responsibilities you will be completing the following:

• Creates and maintains a safety & development culture.
• Responsible for the development of direct reports.  Foreman/Lead Journeymen and helping to form Development plans for the Crew.
• Work with safety and ops. team to track and schedule training for crew members. Ensure that the required training is up to date.
• Monitors Efficiency, Quality, and maintains safe work practices - Brings Accountability to the crew. Knowledge of the projects and work procedures.  Ensure that we complete projects on time, safely, following company policies. 
• Ensures Job Briefings are performed correctly.  Teach – Train – Develop a process to hold crews accountable – Teach leads to analyze and identify risk and mitigate with safety controls.
• Checks time sheets for accuracy and ensures they are filled out daily and ready for payroll on time.
• Ensuring crews are progressing through EST Levels.  Review the crew’s knowledge and witness proficiency test to progress to the next level.  Ensure the crew leads are teaching and training the next level.
• Coordinate with PM and other GFs to share resources - Maintain and Track tools & Equipment usage.  Move manpower and resources from job to job as needed.
• Schedules subcontractors/vendors for job execution and communicates with GC, crew and PM.
• Plan projects from initiation to completion, conducting progress meetings and maintaining a three-week look-ahead schedule. Optimizes resource utilization to ensure projects are completed on time and under budget.
• Coordinate with PM to review budget of projects.  Ensure we stay within our budget.
• Oversees material purchasing to ensure all acquisitions align with the company’s best interests and project requirements. Maintains full ownership of the purchasing process
• Safety Audits – Review job sites for progress and safety process.
• Working with the team to schedule interviews and review potential crew members. 

Qualifications

• Kentucky electrical license is recommended but not required
• 5+ Years of experience recommended
• Valid driver's license
• Own your own hand tools
• Proficiency with NEC and local codes
• Must be able to pass criminal background check and drug screening

Benefits/Culture

Today, we are listed among Engineering News-Records Top 150 Specialty Contracting firms. Our success is based on our customers confidence in us; the loyalty, hard work and performance of our people; and the traditions with which Mr. Davis H. Elliot began the company in 1946. We understand that having the best team requires people being treated like family. Some of the benefits we offer our team include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance w/ additional Voluntary Life Insurance
• 401K w/ company match
• Employee Stock Ownership Program
• State and Federally accredited Lineman Apprenticeship program 
• Paid Vacation 
• Servant Leadership Training
• Uniforms and PPE provided